Passenger Car interior detail parts

You didn't say what cars you want to add interiors to. 

I wanted interiors and LED constant lighting in my  Lionel 16" Congressional Cars (I know I lost any collector value!) .  So I bought interiors (molded styrene) of MTH cars.  MTH HAD stock of coach car interiors, and I found an MTH plastic NYC Observation car body w/ interior, new, on e-bay.   The MTH interiors were too wide (or the Lionel  aluminum bodies too narrow) and it took considerable resizing- a cut down the center, sanding then re-joining.

The MTH interiors are still too high- so the passengers do not sit at the right height, but the narrowing worked OK.

I had a lot of fun painting some 60 or so unpainted Chinese seated figures, including a prisoner (and his mother - also a prisoner but blind with a cane) being transported by Marshalls, both in stripes.  Even a few Catholic Schoolgirls and a lady in red or two.  Few notice, but I had a laugh.

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@SANTIAGOP23 posted:

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Delta has a lot of pieces Santiago. Calumet Model Works does also.

      I have the 15" K-Line Hiawatha set with the Skytop Lounge observation car. K-Line used generic ivory colored basic seats in the Skytop Lounge. I noticed what Santiago did with his lounge and so I did some research. I found photos of the actual interior. I noticed that there was a semi circular sofa at the very rear of the car. I made that myself from scrap.

     Next, I noticed from the photos of the actual car that there were single seats and double seats and that they had arm rests. I found seats that were very close to the ones in the photo from Precision Scale Co. I bought their single seats- 41383 and their double seats- 41384.

    In addition to seats, the actual interior had a table on either side of the car. The table is rounded in the front and is composed of several shelves spaced about 8" apart. I have ordered tongue depressors that are an actual 5/8" wide and I will construct the two tables from them.

    The real car has table lamps on the tables. Keil Line 48-682 lamps will sit on top of the tables I make.

    Finally, the Dell Rapids observation car had two floor standing ash trays for the smokers back in the day. I'll use two Keil Line 48-684 ash trays, one in the rear and one in the front of the car before the sleeping compartments.

   I will also make a new floor from 1/16 styrene that I purchased off the net.

   In addition to making a semi circular sofa, I primed the seats and I am getting ready to paint these items in Milwaukee maroon. I'll send photos later on.

John

@Mike Wyatt posted:

You didn't say what cars you want to add interiors to. 

I wanted interiors and LED constant lighting in my  Lionel 16" Congressional Cars (I know I lost any collector value!) .  So I bought interiors (molded styrene) of MTH cars.  MTH HAD stock of coach car interiors, and I found an MTH plastic NYC Observation car body w/ interior, new, on e-bay.   The MTH interiors were too wide (or the Lionel  aluminum bodies too narrow) and it took considerable resizing- a cut down the center, sanding then re-joining.

The MTH interiors are still too high- so the passengers do not sit at the right height, but the narrowing worked OK.

I had a lot of fun painting some 60 or so unpainted Chinese seated figures, including a prisoner (and his mother - also a prisoner but blind with a cane) being transported by Marshalls, both in stripes.  Even a few Catholic Schoolgirls and a lady in red or two.  Few notice, but I had a laugh.

What you are describing is at least half of the fun of O gauge passenger car interior modeling. The cars are only a representation of the real thing, not scale replicas of them, so you have free reign to invent.

The only thing that I would add, with respect to your comments about passenger size, is that Lionel, MTH and indeed other O gauge interiors (including GGD and Atlas) are actually sub-scale - whether the cars are 21”, 18” or 15” - they are really nearer S scale or 1/63 rather than 1/48.  So choose passenger figures accordingly. The old MTH Railking figures are the right size - they don’t need to undergo surgery to fit. The unpainted figure packs are still available in quantities, and you can find the packs of painted figures too, but at a cost.

P.S. Santiago mentions the Delta Models interiors and they are fine pieces - but designed for true O scale interiors. Those that I have require to be cut down to fit in even scale Lionel or GGD cars. I think that they were designed for various O scale 2rail cars made in brass.